I bought my first camera when I was 13. It was a 35mm Petri rangefinder. I was using a 127 brownie (I have one just like it now) before that. I have been taking pictures ever since. I did photography pretty seriously in the 1970s. Mostly 120 roll film and 4x5 sheet film. I never had a decent darkroom though. I printed many, but not all, of my images. Then kids came along and the darkoom became a bedroom. The cameras and enlargers were sold. I have been carrying around the negatives ever since.

I just bought an Epson Perfection 2450 scanner that has an overhead light source for negatives and transparencies. Now I can get my images into Photoshop. Next will be some serious inkjet printing...when I get a serious inkjet printer. One step at a time.

I grabbed several sheets of negatives to start scanning. Instead of scanning one that I had printed before I selected one I had never printed. It had scratches and dirt on the negative and was pretty much unprintable in a darkroom. Photoshop to the rescue!

I've started a page to collect these images with thumbnails and links to a large images.

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